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I have seen dogs named close to command sounds. "Go" is most noteable and doesn't seem to effect the dog at all.

a while back I trained with a feller with a Dawg named Bo. and the pup would break on blind retrieves once in a while when he first started running cold blinds. the soft " no here, no heal, gooooooood" this guy had used forever was so close to Bo, no = bo, that the dog would blast off line like he was being released on a mark. I think he ended up shortening bo to just "B" for the dogs release on mark name. I used to joke he shoulda just named him "No Here!" but thats another story

"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold

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a while back I trained with a feller with a Dawg named Bo. and the pup would break on blind retrieves once in a while when he first started running cold blinds. the soft " no here, no heal, gooooooood" this guy had used forever was so close to Bo, no = bo, that the dog would blast off line like he was being released on a mark. I think he ended up shortening bo to just "B" for the dogs release on mark name. I used to joke he shoulda just named him "No Here!" but thats another story

Hmmmm hadn't really thought about this. Might have to reconsider a call name in the very near future.... Thanks Ken!!!

God bless!- Jamee

When you stop having fun, it's time to quit!!"If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either"- Author unknown

I had one named Tracker. I usually sent him on, "Track." I was honoring a guy in training, who sent all his dogs on, "Back," for marks and blinds. Track heard the other handler say, "Back," and yahoo he was on his way. He got a bit correction for, "Sit." He only made that mistake once.

Howard NiemiYou really gotta be careful about how high a pedestal you put your method, your accomplishments, your dog on. There's usually someone who's done more, somewhere. And they may have used a different method than you did! Chris Atkinson 2013